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Ben Goldacre joins Oxford University

Awards and Appointments

Best-selling author to research transparency and reliability of clinical trials in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.

Dr Ben Goldacre, the author, broadcaster, campaigner, medical doctor and academic, known for his best-selling book Bad Science and weekly column in the Guardian, begins a three-year project this month at Oxford University which aims to improve the transparency and reliability of clinical trials in medicine and randomised experiments in social policy.

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